Background
Carol Janet Brown was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her father Robin Brown was a chartered accountant, while her mother was a director of the Ranfurly Library, specialising in the translation of medieval French and German lyrics.
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Carol Brown
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She attended Street George"s School, Edinburgh and went on to study modern and medieval languages at Girton College, Cambridge.
Career
She was best known for her translations of Bernhard Schlink"s The Reader. After graduation with a first class degree, she worked at John Farquharson, a literary agency in London. In 1970 she moved to New York where she joined the publisher Alfred A. Knopf.
She became a senior editor, responsible for purchasing publishing rights from international publishers, and began her parallel career in literary translation, mainly from the German.
Among the authors Janeway edited was George MacDonald Fraser. She also published Elsa Morante, Heinrich Böll, Imre Kertesz, Thomas Mann and Patrick Süskind.
An early translation by Janeway was Das Boot by Lothar-Günther Buchheim. Her translation of The Reader by Bernhard Schlink and Embers by Sandor Marai were lauded.
She died of cancer on August 3, 2015, aged 71, in New York City.
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The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (1999) Paperback
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